‘Nobody in the country’ wants to fight Pat Brown, claims his adviser

“We’ve had an email, I’ll not say who it was from, from a manager of a cruiserweight in this country saying, ‘We will not fight Pat Brown under any circumstances,’” smiled Sam Jones, who advises Brown. “That’s a very big thing to say in a money business. It speaks volumes.

“Nobody is going to want to fight him so we have to get him into position. He’s top 15 in the WBA, and it isn’t going to be long before Pat Brown challenges for a British title and world honors, because he’s big as well. He’s big at the weight, his body is getting bigger, so he can’t be a cruiserweight for years to come. He wants to win a world title at cruiserweight and then the idea is to move up to heavyweight.”

Brown is now 5-0 (5 KOs), with his last four fights all being finished inside two rounds. The Jamie Moore-trained prospect is hoping to get into the title picture domestically very soon. 

“Pat Brown has been ordered to fight John Hedges for the English title,” Jones said. “John Hedges doesn’t want to fight Pat, which is a very sensible move. If I was looking after John Hedges, which I was at one stage, I would tell him to swerve Pat like the plague. It’s a great move. Whoever is looking after him, Adam Morallee, who I was in business with, he’s done a great job for John because if you put John Hedges in against Pat it would just be for financial gain and the outcome would be, as Clubber Lang said, ‘pain.’

“It looks as though we’re going to have to go and get a solid international opponent for Pat, because nobody in the country wants to fight him.”

But Jones knows Brown needs rounds over anything else. 

“Exactly,” he admitted. “Unfortunately with Pat, he’s only going to get rounds when he’s at that top, top level, because everybody in this country, Pat beats them all well. There’s not a cruiserweight in this country that beats Pat Brown.”

That is some boast from Jones, with fighters like Chris Billam-Smith, Viddal Riley, Aloys Junior and Callum Johnson all on the scene.

“I get excited by fighters. But Jamie Moore, who’s very levelheaded, we’ve both said we’d like him to win an English title, a British title, European title and do it the traditional way, but we’re not going to get that luxury when we’re at this English title level and nobody wants to fight him. But it’s fair, because if I was looking after these cruiserweights, I’d tell them to avoid him as well.”